Retaining their Argentine interests ( 44 companies, by the 1980s ), the families continued to suffer from ongoing disputes, and in 1987, CEO Mario Hirsch died suddenly.

The 1980s brought a wave of high-technology startups, creating software such as Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3, and advanced computers, but many of these companies fell into decline with the fall of the minicomputer and DOS-based systems.

Further student protests, including hunger strike and more barricades of Hamilton Hall and the Business School during the late 1970s and early 1980s, were aimed at convincing the university trustees to divest all of the university's investments in companies that were seen as active or tacit supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Since the 1980s, following the popularization of computer technology, it has become fashionable in marketing for names of products and companies, and for 1990s online video games where players use pseudonyms ( when spaces were not allowed ).

During the 1980s and 1990s many companies signed licensing deals with the player associations, but some companies did not.

Banana workers continued at the top of the wage scale in the 1990s ; however, in the 1980s, as banana production became less labor intensive, the companies had decreased their investment and work force.

Honduras's traditional system of independent banana producers, who, as late as the 1980s, sold their crops to the international banana companies, was eroded in the 1990s.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

Several companies were building and selling Lisp Machines in the 1980s: Symbolics ( 3600, 3640, XL1200, MacIvory and other models ), Lisp Machines Incorporated ( LMI Lambda ), Texas Instruments ( Explorer and MicroExplorer ) and Xerox ( InterLisp-D workstations ).

These companies introduced the concept of directory services to information technology and computer networking, their input culminating in the comprehensive X. 500 specification, a suite of protocols produced by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) in the 1980s.

The time for river ports had gone however, and most of them disappeared, facing particular pressure from the new rail ferries, In the 1980s, deregulation also involved and heavily changed the port industry, with harbour boards abolished, and replaced by more commercially-focussed companies.

In fact, in the 1980s Paraguay did not contain even one of Latin America's 1, 000 largest companies, at least some of which were found in most other countries in the region.

By the early 1980s, some companies started producing very inexpensive turntables that displaced the products of companies like BSR.

The period since the 1980s saw many breweries absorbed by, or becoming by take-overs larger companies in the food, hotel or property sectors.

The telecommunications system in Russia have undergone significant changes since the 1980s, resulting in more than 1, 000 companies licensed to offer communication services today.

Breakwater Construction in Seosan coast ( 1984 ) The result was that South Korean construction companies concentrated on the rapidly growing domestic market in the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, largely through consumer awareness, a new generation of small breweries sperheaded by the likes of Stockholm's Nils Oscar Brewery began to grow alongside the large companies.

Several Japanese companies produced turbocharged high performance motorcycles in the early 1980s.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

Some companies continued wiping material into the 1980s, such as ATV.

Beginning in the 1980s computer-aided design programs reduced the need of draftsmen significantly, especially in small to mid-sized companies.

In the 1980s, military and other entities of the US government began installing early ALE units, using ALE controller products built primarily by US companies.

By the late 1980s, the cellular industry's subscriber base had grown into the millions across America and it became necessary to add channels for additional capacity.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

Almost universally, home computers of the 1980s had a ROM-resident BASIC interpreter, allowing the machines to boot directly into BASIC which therefore constituted a significant and visible part of the user interface of many home computers ' rudimentary operating systems.

In 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken.

The National network might have looked like this by the 1980s if the lines not proposed for development in Beeching II had closed

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U. S. had experienced high inflation and Friedman's policy positions tended to defend the stronger dollar at that time.

Love also had a career in acting, originally landing small roles in Alex Cox films in the 1980s.

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

By the 1980s many colleges had recognised a community need for computer training and since then thousands of people have been up-skilled through IT courses.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

Indeed television sets sold throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ' ITV / IBA 2 '.

Throughout the 1980s, the Indians ' owners had pushed for a new stadium.

Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, the computer press had often sought Commodore, one of the industry's leading players, and its colorful management for information, despite the company's notorious reputation.

By the late 1980s, the personal computer market had become dominated by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms.

Digital Equipment, which had twice as many employees as Compaq, has been a leading company in the previous generation of computing during the 1970s and early 1980s but it had struggled since then.

Since the mid 1980s, the Chianti Classico zone has had its own DOCG recognized area separate from the greater Chianti region.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

By the end of the 1980s, the economy had made a healthy recovery, which weakened in the 1990s due to a decrease in banana prices.

In the 1980s, movie roles and other ventures caused Parton to tour less than she had done during the previous decade.

Although land, as at Ludgate Circus and Lewisham, had been reserved for the second stage, the rising cost led to the project's indefinite postponement in the early 1980s.